Stories from our Center: Lives Challenged by MS - Softcover

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In March 2020, the Swedish Hospital Multiple Sclerosis Center in Seattle, WA, sponsored a university-level creative writing class called “Finding Your Voice in Writing.” Over the next eighteen months, six talented writers shared, critiqued, and published a wide variety of candid, heart-felt, raw memoir pieces and short stories.

• Travel to the USSR with Carolyn Duncan as a young journalist about to break the biggest story of her career in Sorry, Moscow is Closed.
• Ride along with John J. Mistur in his head-controlled power wheelchair as he encounters obstacle after obstacle in Damn Phone Bill.
• Be horrified as Katie Yusuf allows herself to be a human Guinea Pig in a medical trial for a new MS drug in Face Behind the Numbers.
• Root for Al Tietjen as he sets aside his pride and learns to accept assistance from others in Help.
• Wince with Lucinda Hauser as she bears the pain of Bee Sting Therapy in The Queen Bee and Her Hive.
• Feel the frustrations of Laura Nicol as she battles with the bureaucracy in the clinic where her husband must undergo frequent procedures in Go Buy a Lift, You Cheapskates.

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